DEATH IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 284, 28 August 1935, Page 9

DEATH IN ENGLAND

Cousin of Earl Jellicoe

WORK IN POOR DISTRICT (British Official Wireless.) ( Received August 27, 5.5 p.m.) .Rugby, August 26. The Rev. J. B. L. Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe, who died on .Saturday, aged 37, had been prominently associated with experimental housing and other reforms in the Somerstown poor district of London, north of St. Pancras Station, which attracted attention both at Home and overseas. He organised a Public Utility Society which rehoused a large number of slum dwellers in flats with gardens, trees, ponds and swings for children and other amenities at rents not higher than those formerly paid by the tenants while giving a return on the capital subscribed by practical philanthropists of 2J per cent, on loan stock and 3 per cent, on ordinary shares. The Rev. Mr. Jellicoe, who was curate of the parish until he was moved last year to the curacy at St. Martln’s-in-the-Fields, also superintended a local public house which was rebuilt with a roof-garden, restaurant and games facilities and licensed for beer only.